so now that i've officially changed my name, i went to look up what i needed to do for my passport. guess what! they changed the policy FOUR days ago that now if you change your name, you have to re-apply for a new one and pay the $67 for a renewal. what?! before you would just get an amended page to your passport stating your new name, and you keep your old passport until it expires, but now you have to get a totally new one. since my current passport is valid until 2008, i feel totally gypped! sigh. well i think i'll apply for a new one when i think i'm going to take another international trip, since i don't really need one now and it would be a "waste" of my new passport's 10 year period. boo.
i went to the dmv yesterday to get my new license, i hope my picture turned out ok. while they were taking it, i heard a click and then a flash a second later, but i heard the click and thought the picture was taken already and kinda moved when the flash went off. so hmm, hopefully it doesn't look funny, but the lady said the picture was good so i hope she's right! i also had to sign my new name, that was weird. i think i need to practice, i'm not changing my name on my credit cards until i get my new license, so i have 3-4 weeks to practice! it's so strange to have a whole new name, but i guess i'll just have to get used to it. i changed my email at work and emailed everyone so it's pretty official now!
on a better note, it's friday! i have a bunch of tasks to do this weekend. i hope and pray that no one calls me from work!
Friday, September 30, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
here's a pic
Here's one of my favs...i'm still waiting for the proof cd so this is all you get for now!
halfway there
i went to the social security office and my name has been officially changed! Tomorrow is my appointment with the DMV! i'm so glad they have a ss office and dmv near my work, so convenient! i'm working very diligently on the honeymoon recap with pictures, I think I'll definitely have it ready by this weekend, so look out for it!
Sunday, September 25, 2005
can i catch a break??
yesterday (sat) i was called 4 times for work but 2 out of the 4 times i missed the call! oops. i'm very very bad at picking up calls on my cell, i just don't always have my cell with me at all times. and i guess they don't try my new home number? i dunno, i changed it recently but maybe it hasn't taken effect yet, i dunno. when we lived at avalon, they would call home and cell.
anyways. yesterday morning i check my cellphone at 7:30am (i was up early cause i had class at 8am) and i got 2 missed calls! they're both from tucson so i know it's the manager from work calling, one at 6am and another at 7am. the first one asked to look at a problem, the 2nd one said to ignore the first call. whew, dodged that bullet! my cellphone usually stays downstairs in my purse when i'm asleep, i don't usually bring my purse into the bedroom at night, so i didn't hear the ringing at all. next call comes at 4pm, but again, i'm upstairs watching tv and my purse is downstairs and i didn't hear the ring. but this time, the manager didn't leave a message, so i guess it wasn't that important. whew again! at 5:30pm when we're driving to dinner, another call! this time i picked up, but since i wasn't at home and i couldn't log in to look at the problem, the manager just asked me some questions. so that was ok. but then at 10:30pm, another call, and since i was home i had to login and help look at a problem and worked til midnight. sigh. i really hope today is not the same. but i'll be out again for most of the afternoon...i checked my messages already and haven't gotten any so far! =P
to top it off, i think i'm getting sick. i should be sleeping still but on weekends i still get up early between 8-9am. i feel like since coming back from hm i've been thrown back into my busy regular life without any easing back into it, so it's been causing stress to my body i think. it was too used to the luxury of lounging all day. who stays at work until 7:30pm on their first day back from their honeymoon?? argh. work has just been too busy, it was so nice in tahiti where i didn't have to constantly worry about, am i going to get called today? the first week back at work was crazy busy, and i had class on sat, so i haven't really gotten a chance to relax. my goals this week are to get my name changed and work on hm recap. i'm also hoping the photographer will have the wedding photos ready this week. he said 4-5 days last tuesday, so that should mean mon or tues right ??
anyways. yesterday morning i check my cellphone at 7:30am (i was up early cause i had class at 8am) and i got 2 missed calls! they're both from tucson so i know it's the manager from work calling, one at 6am and another at 7am. the first one asked to look at a problem, the 2nd one said to ignore the first call. whew, dodged that bullet! my cellphone usually stays downstairs in my purse when i'm asleep, i don't usually bring my purse into the bedroom at night, so i didn't hear the ringing at all. next call comes at 4pm, but again, i'm upstairs watching tv and my purse is downstairs and i didn't hear the ring. but this time, the manager didn't leave a message, so i guess it wasn't that important. whew again! at 5:30pm when we're driving to dinner, another call! this time i picked up, but since i wasn't at home and i couldn't log in to look at the problem, the manager just asked me some questions. so that was ok. but then at 10:30pm, another call, and since i was home i had to login and help look at a problem and worked til midnight. sigh. i really hope today is not the same. but i'll be out again for most of the afternoon...i checked my messages already and haven't gotten any so far! =P
to top it off, i think i'm getting sick. i should be sleeping still but on weekends i still get up early between 8-9am. i feel like since coming back from hm i've been thrown back into my busy regular life without any easing back into it, so it's been causing stress to my body i think. it was too used to the luxury of lounging all day. who stays at work until 7:30pm on their first day back from their honeymoon?? argh. work has just been too busy, it was so nice in tahiti where i didn't have to constantly worry about, am i going to get called today? the first week back at work was crazy busy, and i had class on sat, so i haven't really gotten a chance to relax. my goals this week are to get my name changed and work on hm recap. i'm also hoping the photographer will have the wedding photos ready this week. he said 4-5 days last tuesday, so that should mean mon or tues right ??
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
a little interlude
man, it's been busy at work so i haven't been able to update my blog with the wedding stuff! oh well, most of you guys were at the wedding anyways, so you can check that entry periodically to see if i've updated it heh.
anyways, the good news is that my job is staying in san jose! woohoo, now i don't have to worry about my pension and how i plan on finding a new job! so yeah, sometime next year we're moving into the building across the street, and then sometime 2nd half of next year we'll be moving to the almaden research center which is little bit more south, it'll add about 10 minutes to my commute. it's at the top of a hill and the building is a lot nicer. so it'll be a nicer environment to work in. yesterday we took a tour of the building and ate in the cafeteria, i wish we could move earlier! they spent a lot of money making the building nice, i guess the researchers (all the phDers) get the VIP treatment. i wonder how they'll feel about all of us moving up there...oh well! i hope i get a window office!
actually, the execs wanted our group to move to tucson (that was their initial reaction) but they decided that we needed to be able to support manufacturing which is staying in sj, so they're letting us stay in sj. whew. but they are not hiring anymore people in sj, so if someone in sj leaves, the position will get filled in tucson. so the group in sj will shrink and shrink. in addition, in order to cut office costs, they requested our dept to select 7 people to work from home permanently, so there will only be about 15-20 that will move to the research center. my officemate was one of those chosen, so i'll be getting a new officemate!
tonight is my first day of class and i have class on sat. sucks. i'm happy that the new season of tv has started woohoo. i missed the first 2 episodes of the OC though. i'm researching options on how to record the thousands of shows i'm into, i need something where i can record 3 different channels at a time =P
anyways, the good news is that my job is staying in san jose! woohoo, now i don't have to worry about my pension and how i plan on finding a new job! so yeah, sometime next year we're moving into the building across the street, and then sometime 2nd half of next year we'll be moving to the almaden research center which is little bit more south, it'll add about 10 minutes to my commute. it's at the top of a hill and the building is a lot nicer. so it'll be a nicer environment to work in. yesterday we took a tour of the building and ate in the cafeteria, i wish we could move earlier! they spent a lot of money making the building nice, i guess the researchers (all the phDers) get the VIP treatment. i wonder how they'll feel about all of us moving up there...oh well! i hope i get a window office!
actually, the execs wanted our group to move to tucson (that was their initial reaction) but they decided that we needed to be able to support manufacturing which is staying in sj, so they're letting us stay in sj. whew. but they are not hiring anymore people in sj, so if someone in sj leaves, the position will get filled in tucson. so the group in sj will shrink and shrink. in addition, in order to cut office costs, they requested our dept to select 7 people to work from home permanently, so there will only be about 15-20 that will move to the research center. my officemate was one of those chosen, so i'll be getting a new officemate!
tonight is my first day of class and i have class on sat. sucks. i'm happy that the new season of tv has started woohoo. i missed the first 2 episodes of the OC though. i'm researching options on how to record the thousands of shows i'm into, i need something where i can record 3 different channels at a time =P
Monday, September 19, 2005
the wedding saga
we're back from our lovely honeymoon! i'm nice and dark! anyways, here i go with the wedding saga, it'll probably be very long
thursday:
this is the day julian's parents were supposed to arrive. their whole group consisted of 16 people. 11 of which were going to stay in our house, the other 5 rented 2 rooms at the cypress hotel. they rented a 16 person van and said they were going to drive to yosemite, and then come to our place. they estimated their arrival to be 5pm. My friends wanted to hang out that night at Santana Row at 8pm, but since Julian's family said they were going to be here at 5, I told them I couldn't go. So, 5pm rolls around, we try calling his dad, his mom, his brother, none of them have reception. from 5-8pm we call them and can not reach them, so we have no idea where they are. so julian said i could go hang out with my friends, how nice hunh? =P so we hang out, i talk to julian around 9pm and he said he finally got in contact with them and they are near tracy. i was like...ok, still got two hours to hang out then! =P so i go home at 11pm and his family still has not arrived yet. julian picked up two of his friends from the airport at 9/10pm and was hanging out at the cypress hotel (where they were staying) when i got home.
so around midnight, julian was still at the cypress, and i hear the door bell ring! his family has arrived!! they all come in soooo tired, they were in the car for 17 hours! they ended up having to take two vans, cause the family from london was leaving on sunday after the wedding, so they had to bring all their luggage with them, but they had so much that it didn't fit into the 16 person van. so they had to bring up their family van as well. anyways, in all the scramble to try and stuff everything in, they forgot to bring the air mattresses/sleeping bags for people to use! so i had to run around looking for stuff that they could use to sleep on. luckily we had enough blankets and pillows and everyone. julian comes back, and then he has to take the 5 people to the cypress cause his dad was soo tired from driving. everyone gets changed/ready for bed and we all go to sleep at 3am!
friday:
at 8am, i hear people in the backyard. everyone is awake already! so julian and i get up too, they were picking the apples from our apple tree! julian went off with his aunt to take her to the bank, buy some coffee and other things, and pick up the women from the cypress so that they could do their hair/nails. so i hang out with his family until about 10am. the women were off to do their hair and nails at a salon close by our house. i pack all the stuff i'll need for the wedding cause i'm staying at the cypress tonight, and then go to my parent's house. hang out for a little while and then go with my sister to lisa's tea treasures in campbell for the bridesmaid luncheon. we have a lovely lunch (even though shal and sharon were very late =P ) but we end up 20 minutes late to our nail appointment. we didn't even eat our dessert either! the nail salon that i chose was very strict about the time cause they have appointments scheduled every half an hour, so my sister and i got our full pedicures, but for our manicures we only got our nails painted. the salon was really cute though, but kind of sucked that they were so inflexible, alas they weren't vietnamese =P it was very very busy, they had lots of people working there and people coming and going. but it was in downtown los gatos, so i guess that's to be expected with all those preppie whities and such.
after the nails, we go to to the rehearsal and practice the ceremony. intially the ceremony was going to be in the area outside where you walk in, but during the rehearsal it was waaaayyy too hot, so we moved it to the back area. we practiced twice, and then went to dinner! the rehearsal dinner was at sonoma chicken coop. apparently julian's family decided to go to gilroy ?? (to be continued later...taking a break now)
thursday:
this is the day julian's parents were supposed to arrive. their whole group consisted of 16 people. 11 of which were going to stay in our house, the other 5 rented 2 rooms at the cypress hotel. they rented a 16 person van and said they were going to drive to yosemite, and then come to our place. they estimated their arrival to be 5pm. My friends wanted to hang out that night at Santana Row at 8pm, but since Julian's family said they were going to be here at 5, I told them I couldn't go. So, 5pm rolls around, we try calling his dad, his mom, his brother, none of them have reception. from 5-8pm we call them and can not reach them, so we have no idea where they are. so julian said i could go hang out with my friends, how nice hunh? =P so we hang out, i talk to julian around 9pm and he said he finally got in contact with them and they are near tracy. i was like...ok, still got two hours to hang out then! =P so i go home at 11pm and his family still has not arrived yet. julian picked up two of his friends from the airport at 9/10pm and was hanging out at the cypress hotel (where they were staying) when i got home.
so around midnight, julian was still at the cypress, and i hear the door bell ring! his family has arrived!! they all come in soooo tired, they were in the car for 17 hours! they ended up having to take two vans, cause the family from london was leaving on sunday after the wedding, so they had to bring all their luggage with them, but they had so much that it didn't fit into the 16 person van. so they had to bring up their family van as well. anyways, in all the scramble to try and stuff everything in, they forgot to bring the air mattresses/sleeping bags for people to use! so i had to run around looking for stuff that they could use to sleep on. luckily we had enough blankets and pillows and everyone. julian comes back, and then he has to take the 5 people to the cypress cause his dad was soo tired from driving. everyone gets changed/ready for bed and we all go to sleep at 3am!
friday:
at 8am, i hear people in the backyard. everyone is awake already! so julian and i get up too, they were picking the apples from our apple tree! julian went off with his aunt to take her to the bank, buy some coffee and other things, and pick up the women from the cypress so that they could do their hair/nails. so i hang out with his family until about 10am. the women were off to do their hair and nails at a salon close by our house. i pack all the stuff i'll need for the wedding cause i'm staying at the cypress tonight, and then go to my parent's house. hang out for a little while and then go with my sister to lisa's tea treasures in campbell for the bridesmaid luncheon. we have a lovely lunch (even though shal and sharon were very late =P ) but we end up 20 minutes late to our nail appointment. we didn't even eat our dessert either! the nail salon that i chose was very strict about the time cause they have appointments scheduled every half an hour, so my sister and i got our full pedicures, but for our manicures we only got our nails painted. the salon was really cute though, but kind of sucked that they were so inflexible, alas they weren't vietnamese =P it was very very busy, they had lots of people working there and people coming and going. but it was in downtown los gatos, so i guess that's to be expected with all those preppie whities and such.
after the nails, we go to to the rehearsal and practice the ceremony. intially the ceremony was going to be in the area outside where you walk in, but during the rehearsal it was waaaayyy too hot, so we moved it to the back area. we practiced twice, and then went to dinner! the rehearsal dinner was at sonoma chicken coop. apparently julian's family decided to go to gilroy ?? (to be continued later...taking a break now)
Monday, September 05, 2005
WE'RE MARRIED!!
hooray, the wedding is over! since thursday night it's been crazy crazy crazy until about now. julian's family has left and julian's friends are about to take off as well, so finally it'll just be the two of us. we still need to buy some stuff for our honeymoon and pack! i'm so excited about our honeymoon, but one thing i'll miss is my lovely internet =P i'm addicted i know.
maybe if i feel up to it, i'll do a mini recap of the craziness before the wedding when i get back. hope the rest of you keep your blogs up to date so i can read what you've been up to ! =) tata! i'm off to relax and get tanned !
maybe if i feel up to it, i'll do a mini recap of the craziness before the wedding when i get back. hope the rest of you keep your blogs up to date so i can read what you've been up to ! =) tata! i'm off to relax and get tanned !
Thursday, September 01, 2005
sigh
the sucky thing about having wed & thurs off is that i've been delegated the jobs of cleaning boo. i'm taking a break now =P some of julian's family is staying at our house so i have to make it semi-presentable. my parents came to my house the day after we moved in so we had stuff everywhere and it was sooo messy, and now whenever i talk to them, they ask me if it's clean yet hehe. but yes right now, it's definitely A LOT bettter than after we moved in.
we bought sheets and pillows from ikea for the guest rooms, the cheapest stuff, and it SUCKS. omg. the pillow is sooo flat. if i had known i would have opted for something else! geez. oh well. kinda sucks for those that are staying over.
we bought sheets and pillows from ikea for the guest rooms, the cheapest stuff, and it SUCKS. omg. the pillow is sooo flat. if i had known i would have opted for something else! geez. oh well. kinda sucks for those that are staying over.
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